ambidextrousadjective
uk/ˌæm.bɪˈdek.strəs/us/ˌæm.bɪˈdek.strəs/able to use both hands equally well
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The hand
- -fingered
- ball
- carpal
- carpometacarpal
- carpus
- digitorum
- fingerprint
- flat
- middle finger
- palm
- paw
- pollicis
- right-handed
- right-hander
- ring finger
- thenar
- triquetrum
- two-handed
- volar
- volaris
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Examples from literature
- A man who is ambidextrous will sign his name differently with his right or left hand, but it is the same signature.
- I know that Primitive Man was ambidextrous, because he wrote and painted just as often with his left as with his right, and just as successfully.
- In the use of the birch he was ambidextrous.
- Inquiry should be made as to whether the patient is right or left handed, or ambidextrous.
- She is ambidextrous, as witness the following observations.